Low-Sew Boutique

By Cheryl Weiderspahn

Purses and accessories are fashionable items to make yourself. With the use of pre-finished purchased textiles, this book provides a fresh new twist to these established favourites. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896894347
• ISBN13: 9780896894341
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Krause Pubns Inc
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Fun, Easy Projects!

I love projects that are quick and easy, and this book gave me quite a few possibilities! The instructions are clear and easy to follow, and the author also gives information on where the placemats, rugs, etc were purchased. The totes are relevant to todays styles, and who knew you could manipulate pot holders into other useful items. There are also patterns included for items that are cut and sewn into the designs, which I find more useful than a tiny grid drawing showing how to sketch the pattern yourself. All in all, a fun guide for some quick, cute projects for anyone- and beginners will especially appreciate how easy it is to make accessories and gifts.

Clever and creative!

This book is fun! It offers ingenious ideas for making mostly purses and tote bags, and a few other items including some travel accessories (shoe bag, garment bag, luggage tag, and a clever heat-proof curling iron holder) and a hat, scarf and mittens. It is full of creative ideas for using readymade pot holders, placemats, crocheted coasters, and woven rugs as the substantial foundation for creating other stitched items. The finished edges of the readymade items contribute significantly to the timesaving processes. If I was teaching Girl Scouts or 4-H-ers how to sew, this book would be my bible for great beginnings--in particular, the mini purses and eyeglass holder are wonderful, easy projects that would make any new stitcher proud, and the innovation is appealing to advanced stitchers, too - in fact, I think I'll go out right now to buy an oval placemat so I can make that cute cosmetic bag!

WOW...SIMPLY INSPIRING!!!

I just recently purchased this book, primarily based on the two previous reviews. I cannot tell you how this book has gotten my creative juices flowing!!! I'm looking with a different "eye" at some household items (some of which I viewd as trash) can be incorporated into some very interesting and unique little purses. I can't wait to get started!!!

Fantastic Creative ideas from Ms. Weiderspahn

I have never read a collection of sewing ideas put together from such ingenious everyday items as I found here! I loved the use of bra underwires, old cosmetic bags and household hardware made beautiful... the best part about the book (aside from the great dialogue that makes it as fun to read as anything) is that it really left me looking differently at things around the house that I'd cast off myself. I highly recommend the book and hope to see more from this gifted author!

WOW! It's SEW easy!

Thank you, Cheryl! I will never look at kitchen linens and such the same ever again! I bought your book less than a week ago and went to Wal Mart the other day, dragging home a blue striped placemat, two matching potholders, and a set of matching napkins. In less than two hours I made a cute "boutique" quality purse with a front potholder pocket and a small coordinating make-up bag (made out of the other potholder, of course). I can't wait to make my next bag (out of a garage sale find of four placemats and 4 matching napkins for the total sum of $1.00). WOW! What a great way to make simple, chic, fun accessories. I can't wait for your next book.